Lining for boots and shoes



A. E. MATHIEU LINING FOR BOOTS AND sHons Dec. 11, 1928. 1,694,388

Filed Sept. 17, 1927 Patented Dec. 11, 1928.

UNITED stares ALBERT E. MATHIEU, OF NATICK, MASSACHUSETTS.

LINING FOR BOOTS AND SHOES.

Application filed September My invention relates to linings for the heels of boots and shoes and it has for its object to provide an improved article of this kind. It

is a further object of my invention to provide, as a new article of manufacture, a soft,

thin, leather blank for use as a lining for the heels of boots and shoes which can be ineor porated in a boot or shoe with ease and dispatch, and so as to be accurately fitted to the boot or shoe.

My invention consists, therefore, in an improved lining for heels of boots and shoes,

and also, as another feature thereof, a heel lining blank. The several features of my in vention are particularly pointed out and def fined in the claims at the close of the following description.

In the accompanying drawings Figure 1 is a perspective view of a lining for the heel of a boot or shoe, said lining be ing constructed in accordance with my invention.

Figure 2 is a plan view of the thin, soft, leather blank hereinafter described.

Figure 3 is a section on line 33 of Fig ure 2.

Heel linings for boots and shoes have heretofore been provided which were fitted into the heel portion of the boot or shoe and secured there by means of cement, the purpose being to provide the shoe with a soft cushioning lining element at the heel which not only serves to make the shoe more comfortable to the foot of the wearer, but also to prevent the wearers heel from moving up and down within the shoe, thus avoiding wear of the sock or stocking and also preventing injury to the heel of the wearer. One type of heel lining such as has heretofore been provided consisted of a heel shaped base member fitting against and cemented to the top side of the inner sole and provided with upstanding heel embracing wall extending from about opposite the breast of the heel at one side of the latter, around the back of the base member and along the opposite side to a point near the breast end thereof. This wall has heretofore been a separate piece sometimessewed to the first mentioned bottom or base piece, and sometimes having its lower marginal portion turned in under said first mentioned base piece and cemented to the under side of the latter. These, and all other types of heel linings of this class with which I am familiar, have always been supplied to the trade, usually repair shops and the like, in completely 17, 1927. Serial No. 220,076.

assembled and finished condition, that is,

with the heel embracing wall and the base member constituted by two originally separate pieces cemented or sewed together in their final relationship. As a result it was not always possible to fit a'heel lining to the interior of a shoe properly or accurately, the completely assembled article often being either too large for the shoe or too small.

My invention aims'to obviate these objectionable features characterizing heellinings as heretofore constructed, and one feature thereof consists in providing, as a new article of manufacture, a one-piece blank of soft, thin sheet leather 10, comprising integral base and heel embracing wall portions 11 and 12 respectively, Figure 2. The base portion 11 is heel-shaped except that throughout a portion of one'side thereof it is integrally joined to the heel-embracing wall portion 12. That is, it is shaped with a breast end 13, a side 14, a portion of the opposite side 15 and a back 16, giving to the greater part of the base portion 11 the outline of a heel.

The wall portion 12 of the blank is, as pointed out, integrally united with the base portion 11 at one side of the latter and extends rearwardly a distance, from the base portion 11 sufficient-to extend around the back 16 and along'the'side 1a to a point near the breast 13. This Wall portion 12 is creased longitudinally as at 17 to provide a marginal flap 18 to underlie the base portion 11 when the parts of the blank are disposed in their final assembled relationship as shown in Figure 1, said crease serving to define the line on which the flap is folded under the base portion 11.

It is intended to supply the trade with blanks such as that shown in Figure 2 and that the parts be brought into their assembled or final relationship when the lining is incorporated in a shoe. 7

To apply one of these linings to a shoe the outer side of the wall portion 12 and base portion 11 and both sides of the flap 18 are coated with cement. The parts of theblanks are then brought into roughly assembled relationship with the flap 18 underlying the base portion 11, and placed within the shoe. The lining is then pressed into intimate contact with the interior of the shoe throughout its extent, and as will be clear, it fits itself perfectly to the shape and size of the shoe heel.

It is, of course, within my invention to provide, as a new article of manufacture, the assembled heel lining as shown in Figure 1.

In producing this completed lining, cement is applied only to the top side of the flap 18 and the marginal under side of the base portion 11 along the side 14 and back 16. When the parts are then brought into assembled relationship with the heel-embracing wall 12 upstanding approximately perpendicularly with relation to the'base portion 11, and is bent around the back 16 and along the side 14, with the flap 18 folded inwardly on the crease 17' under and into contact with the base member 11, the lining is completed and ready for use.

The ready made and complete heel linings heretofore provided have been objectionable for the reason that they would seldom conform in size and shape to the shoes to which they were applied. As a result pockets, pleats or wrinkles were often produced in the lining when applying the same to a shoe re sulting in discomfort and injury to the wearer.

My new article of manufacture in the shape A of a leather blank comprising integrally joined bottom and side wall portions of final or finished shape is very inexpensiveand requires less time to fit and apply to a shoe than linings as heretofore constructed.

What I claim is 1. As a new article of manufacture a onepiece fiat shoe lining blank of thin pliable" an upstanding heel embracing position so as to extend around the back and along the opposite side of said base portion, said wall portion being pliably conformable to the inside of the heel portion of the upper of the shoe.

2. As a new article of manufacture a onepiece flat shoe lining blank of thin soft and pliable sheet material of approximately uniform thickness throughout and compris ing a base portion that is inainly heel-shaped,

, portion in the form of astrip integrally ]O11'18Cl ad acent one end andat one side thereof to said base portion at one side of the lat ter so as to extend rearwardly therefrom and provided upon the same side with a marginal flap said wall portion being bendable into an upstanding heelembracing position with its flap underlying said base portion, said flap and base portion being pliably eonformable to the shape of the inside of the heel portion of a shoe and said wall portion being pliably conformable to the shape of the inside of the heel portion of the upper of the shoe.

Signed by me at Natick, county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts this 9th day of September, 1927.

ALBERT E. MATHIEU. 

